i just needed to get out of new york. i e-mailed gus the whole -- i said, look, this is this thing and here is what has been going on and i was going to direct it and really proud of it and we wrote it together and i think it is really good. and we were on the plane and he e-mailed right back,, you know, send a script. >> rose: send a script. >> and so it was at that alex, alec baldwin on the moment when they are telling you to turn the phone off and i said, man, i am trying to forward the script and the flight attendant and i said this is not words with friends, this is important, this is my life. and i got it off to gus and shut the phone off and by the time we landed in florida two hours, two and a half hours later, gus had read it and committed to directing it. >> rose: what kind of guy is that? >> that's a friend. >> that's a friend. >> two and a half, maybe? >> i sort of heard about the project and thought you know what? it is crazy, i don't know if there were other projects too, but one was ben was going to star in